Content
- Lectures: 46 hours
- Seminar: 20 hours
- Independent work: 114 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1: Theoretical foundations of public health
• Development of public health and definition of the field (different definitions of public health, development and historical milestones)
• Important public health terms and concepts (health, disease, clinical medicine, population medicine)
2: Methods of studying health-related phenomena and other methods of working in public health
• Demographic events and phenomena
• Characteristics and structure of the population
• Demographic and health data
• Routine and occasional sources of health data
• Classifications of diseases
• described epidemiology – indicators of disease burden; absolute values, rough and age-standardized rates
• Analytical epidemiology – epidemiological research; relatively weak
• Spatial and environmental epidemiology – GIS
3: Major public health problems and risk factors for them
• Demographic and epidemiological changes
• Overview of major health problems (infectious diseases, chronic non-communicable diseases, diseases, mental disorders)
• Risk factors (natural, socio-economic)
4: Management of health problems (prevention)
• Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; vaccination, screening, treatment, palliative care, rehabilitation
• Organization of preventive activities
• Health promotion
5: Systems and organization of health care and health insurance with health legislation
• Health care and health activity
• Healthcare systems
• Financing of health activities and economics in health care
• Current health care system and health legislation in Slovenia
6: Society and health problems
• Medical ethics and deontology
• Genetics in public health
7: Risk analysis
• Exposure to environmental factors
• Risk assessment
• Risk management
• Risk communication
• Medications and emergencies
